Xu Yingjin

Professor of school of philosophy, Fudan University

Xu Yingjin is currently theprofessor of school of philosophy, Fudan University. His main philosophicalinterests include philosophy of cognitive science (philosophy of AI inparticular), philosophy of language, metaphysics, as well as epistemology. Heis also very interested in the comparative studies between contemporaryJapanese philosophy and Anglophone philosophy. Nishida Kitaro, Kuki Shuzo,Omori Shuzo and Watsuji Tetsuro are among those Japanese philosophers who arebeing studied by him.  Now he is conducting an online course (“UnderstandingJapanese Philosophy”) on the platform of Futurelearn, and that course will open inthe early summer of 2016. His most recent representative book is Mind,Language and Machine: The Dialogue between Artificial Intelligence andWittgenstein (Renmin Press, 2013), which is the most comprehensively elaboratedbook on philosophy of AI in the Chinese-speaking world. He also publishedpapers in English on western philosophical journalslike Synthese, Philosophical Forum, and The InternationalJournal for Philosophy of Religion. He is the now the leading expert who isresponsible for a National Research project on the relationship betweeninformation science and epistemology (Grant No. 15ZDB020).